Afghanistan's Inaugural Test vs India- June 14th to 18th 2018| Bengaluru

[aklemalp]

M.Chinnaswamy Stadium about to witness history yet again.

Afghanistan have packed four spinners into their squad.
No Wridhiman Saha. Most likely my boy Lokesh Rahul will perform the keeping duties. Test triple-centurion, Karun Nair makes a return to the national team

India Squad
Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Karun Nair, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Hardik Pandya, Ishant Sharma, Shardul Thakur,

Afghanistan Squad
Asghar Stanikzai, Mohammad Shahzad, Javed Ahmadi, Ihsanullah Janat, Rahmat Shah, Nasir Jamal, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Afsar Zazai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Zahir Khan, Amir Hamza, Sayed Shirzad, Yamin Ahmadzai, Wafadar, Mujeeb Ur Rahman,

[Gowza]

4 proper spinners in Afghanistan squad not including Nabi and they've still got the young leggy qais ahmed waiting to come up to the national team. Their main pace bowler is injured though and batting I think is a bit suspect.

[Donal C]

I think its quite telling that while Ireland arranged a 3 day county game and two 2 day intra squad practice games ahead of our Test, Afghanistan are opting for three t20 internationals....

[aklemalp]

It looks like Dinesh Karthik will be the keeper for India in this match.

They have kicked out Parthiv Patel yet again

[Yankees]

Originally Posted by Donal C
I think its quite telling that while Ireland arranged a 3 day county game and two 2 day intra squad practice games ahead of our Test, Afghanistan are opting for three t20 internationals....

what's telling about it? AFG isn't in any position to turn down international games, regardless of format.

[5tonne]

Do we think their first test should have been against Bangladesh rather than India? The contest would have been closer.

[aklemalp]

Don't know why Afghanistan didn't add Shapoor Zadran in this squad. He bowled well in the latter part of his spell today.

But then again, the pitch will most likely be a spinning one for this match.

[Donal C]

Originally Posted by Yankees
what's telling about it? AFG isn't in any position to turn down international games, regardless of format.

Because IMO if they want to be ideally prepared for a Test they should be getting red ball practice in

Originally Posted by aklemalp
Don't know why Afghanistan didn't add Shapoor Zadran in this squad. He bowled well in the latter part of his spell today.

But then again, the pitch will most likely be a spinning one for this match.

Zadran is garbage. Only plays due to nepotism IMO. Even today went at 10 an over, Ireland regularly smash him around as well.

[MarufH]

I'm proud of this team. They have players in this bunch that started off at devision 5! What an achievement.

[al Furqaan]

Afghan seamers look fairly good. Wafadar bowling up to 89 mph!

[al Furqaan]

Rashid's first over goes for 13.

Nabi 3 overs for 21.

Will Mujeeb do well in his first spell???

[Shaan]

these Afghan spinners are good for T20 but not for Test, they look as if they are in hurry like T20.

[Shaan]

on contrary Dawan playing t20 in test here, taking on AFghan spinners!

[Gowza]

Hopefully Afghans come back strong after lunch

[Rifat_02]

Afghanistan getting mauled here

[adamnsu]

Why is it there are no Indian trolls during a India match without Bangladesh than there is when Bangladesh plays against anyone?

[cricman]

we treated this Rashid Khan like Murali

[horizon]

Originally Posted by adamnsu
Why is it there are no Indian trolls during a India match without Bangladesh than there is when Bangladesh plays against anyone?

They are probably busy in Afghan forums

[Awla]

any streaming link?

[Shaan]

Originally Posted by cricman
we treated this Rashid Khan like Murali

that is t20i, you don’t have time to settle down unlike in test. you have plenty of time wasting good deliveries. Rashid is good in t20👍

[Shaan]

india will win this by innings with huge run.

[adamnsu]

Originally Posted by horizon
They are probably busy in Afghan forums

You might be right lol. But I thought they would set up camp at Pkpassion where support for Afghanistan is more.

[dolcevita]

Originally Posted by Shaan
that is t20i, you don’t have time to settle down unlike in test. you have plenty of time wasting good deliveries. Rashid is good in t20👍

The truth is that most bangladeshi batsmen are terrible, most notably against spin.

[Shaan]

Originally Posted by dolcevita
The truth is that most bangladeshi batsmen are terrible, most notably against spin.

yes I agree with you, our players play with so much predetermination, they barely use commonsense while bating. But as saying Rashid is really good in T"20.

[Shaan]

funny Rashid and Mujeeb economy rate here in test seems more like T20 figure where in t20 the total opposite